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A security vulnerability was discovered at GitHub this week that made it possible for an attacker to add new SSH keys to arbitrary GitHub user accounts. Although there was no known malicious activity using this exploit, they are taking the responsible step to email all their users that have SSH keys associated with their account to verify and approve them before they can be used to clone/pull/push repositories over SSH.

I launched a new WordPress blog for a client a few months ago and have been watching as comment spammers find the site and do what they do best, leave spam. As the first few spam comments started coming in I would flag them then manually copy/paste the source IPs and URLs to the built-in WordPress “Comment Blacklist“.

Over time I obviously started seeing some duplicates and I noticed bursts of spam from certain IPs or linking to specific spam URLs. I was curious to see what these top IPs and URLs were, as they would seem the best candidates to include in the blacklist.

If you want to be an early adopter, and haven’t already automatically been given the option to transition your Google Apps account to the new infrastructure, here’s a handy tip to manually trigger the upgrade process.

Point your browser to the following URL, using your own Google Apps domain name, like so: